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Gary Oldman to read CBeebies bedtime story for Children in Need

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 November 2024

Actor ‘honoured’ to recite story and hopes it ‘brings warmth and encouragement’ to children and families

The British actor and Hollywood star Gary Oldman has said he is “very honoured” to read a special CBeebies bedtime story for Children in Need.

The 66-year-old Oscar and three-time Bafta winner will recite the story during Friday night’s 2024 edition of the charity fundraising show. The story of “warmth and encouragement and hope” has been written specifically for Children in Need by Claire Taylor and is based on a true story, with illustrations from Tim Budgen.

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Investment firm London Capital & Finance was Ponzi scheme, court rules

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 November 2024

Judge Robert Miles says former chief Michael Thomson and four others knowingly participated in fraud

Investment firm London Capital & Finance (LCF), whose failure in 2019 triggered one of Britain’s biggest retail investment scandals, operated as a Ponzi scheme, a London judge ruled on Thursday.

The high court said former chief executive Michael Thomson and four others had knowingly participated in the fraud, misled investors and misappropriated assets in a ruling welcomed by LCF’s joint administrators, which brought the case.

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Sophie Turner to lead Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Tomb Raider series

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 November 2024

Game of Thrones actor reportedly in talks to play Lara Croft in the Fleabag creator’s new take on the gaming franchise

Sophie Turner will take on the role of Lara Croft in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s new Tomb Raider series .

According to Deadline , the Game of Thrones actor is in negotiations to take on the lead in the Amazon series based on the hit gaming franchise. It had been reported last month that Turner was competing against Bohemian Rhapsody’s Lucy Boynton for the role.

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Girl who died after leaving police vehicle on M5 named as Tamzin Hall

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 November 2024

Police say family of 17-year-old have asked for privacy after she was fatally struck by car on motorway in Somerset

A teenage girl who fled a stationary police vehicle on the M5 and was fatally struck by a car has been named as Tamzin Hall.

The 17-year-old from Wellington, Somerset, died after being struck by a vehicle travelling southbound on the motorway between Bridgwater and Taunton shortly after 11pm on Monday.

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West Indies v England: third men’s T20 cricket international – live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 November 2024

Updates from St Lucia; match starts at 8pm GMT
Australia beat Pakistan in T20 slog | Email Michael

Wednesday marked two years since England’s men became world T20 champions.

Hello world! A rare over-by-over report for me tonight (be kind) as England look to win this five-match T20 series at the earliest available opportunity. That would be a welcome return to form for Jos Buttler and co after the ODI series defeat here in the West Indies.

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UK charity declares ‘refugee homelessness emergency’ as numbers hit record high

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 November 2024

Naccom report says gaps in state support have led to more than 1,940 refugees having no accommodation

Homelessness among refugees has doubled in the last year to reach record levels as charities hand out tents and sleeping bags to those forced to live on the streets for the first time, according to research.

The No Accommodation Network (Naccom), an umbrella organisation for 140 frontline organisations working with asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants across the UK, has collated the data and shared it with the Guardian.

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Kevin McCarthy predicts Senate won’t confirm Matt Gaetz as attorney general

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 November 2024

Ex-House speaker’s remarks come amid calls for release of ethics report into sexual misconduct claims against Gaetz

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The former Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy is predicting that Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general will be rejected by the Republican Senate next year.

“Gaetz won’t get confirmed, everybody knows that,” McCarthy said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday. Gaetz orchestrated the successful effort to oust McCarthy from his leadership role last year.

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Global plastic production must be cut to curb pollution, study says

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 November 2024

Analysis lays bare huge challenge of mismanaged waste on eve of UN plastic treaty talks in Busan

Global plastic production must be reduced to tackle the immense challenge of plastic pollution , according to an analysis published on the eve of crucial talks to hammer out the world’s first legally binding treaty on plastic waste.

Mismanaged plastic waste, which leaches into the environment and can be harmful to health, will double to 121m tonnes by 2050 if limits are not placed on the production of plastic, according to Samuel Pottinger, the lead author of the research.

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Death of Plymouth woman felled by helicopter was accident, inquest finds

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 November 2024

Jean Langan, 87, was blown over by downwash from search and rescue helicopter landing at Derriford hospital in 2022

The death of an 87-year-old woman who was blown over by a search-and-rescue helicopter landing at a hospital was an accident, an inquest jury has found.

Jean Langan, a retired civil servant, was walking with her niece to her car after having a hearing aid fitted at Derriford hospital in Plymouth in March 2022 when a downwash caused by the helicopter knocked them to the ground.